Category Spotlight: Arcade game best practices. As the types of categories of games on Facebook become more diverse, we'll be highlighting some of the most successful games in a series of posts on the Developer Blog.
A classic game category that has been played by diverse audiences over the years, arcade games such as Bejeweled Blitz, Fruit Ninja Frenzy, and Diamond Dash have been picking up momentum on Facebook Platform lately. Whether on mobile or desktop, these short-session games use a variety of tactics to keep people coming back week after week and to encourage friendly competition. Arcade games growing on Facebook In our research, people who play arcade games do so because the games are quick and easy to play and are a fun way to compete and socialize with friends.
In fact, arcade games are among the most highly rated games on Facebook. As a result, these games have seen steady growth in active users month after month. Bringing friends into the game Healthy competition among friends is a great way to motivate action. Bragging. Going all in on Zynga Poker HTML5. Over the last year, we’ve been doing a lot of R&D to make social games entirely from HTML5, CSS and JavaScript.
Game development in HTML5 is a brave, not-yet-standardized world, but today marks a major stride for both Zynga and the industry. Say hello to Zynga Poker Mobile Web, the next evolution of Zynga Poker, and one of our first games to be featured on Facebook’s mobile apps and mobile site. Zynga Poker Mobile Web was created in cross-collaboration by teams from Zynga Austin and San Francisco, as well as key contributions coming from a shared technology group focused on HTML5 game development. It marks the first game to launch after myself and the team at MarketZero joined Zynga in April 2011, a fact that we’re all particularly proud of. The promise of HTML5 game development is pretty clear: rich, high-quality games built on one code base that can reach across many screens and platforms.
Sound off below with any comments or questions. ThomasMahler.com. TIGSource. Apprenez en vous amusant. Solve Puzzles for Science. Gamers solve problem in 3 weeks scientists couldn't in 10 years. You don't need to be a scientist to determine the structure of an enzyme whose configuration is unknown.
It turns out you can just be a gamer. For the last 10 years, scientists had failed to resolve the configuration of an enzyme, the retroviral protease of M-PMV, which causes AIDS in simians. ScienceBlog writes: This class of enzymes, called retroviral proteases, has a critical role in how the AIDS virus matures and proliferates. Intensive research is under way to try to find anti-AIDS drugs that can block these enzymes, but efforts were hampered by not knowing exactly what the retroviral protease molecule looks like. Eventually, the scientists gave their work over to a game called Foldit.
Foldit players leverage human three-dimensional problem-solving skills to inter- act with protein structures using direct manipulation tools and algo- rithms.... So after turning a problem into a game, with competition against other plays and the prize of academic publication, the problem was solved. Catalogue Musical. TaleSpring Demo (Basic Animations) Xcode Dapp video tutorial.